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Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, A Tale of Love and Darkness is at once a family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history. It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the forties and fifties, in a small apartment crowded with books in twelve languages and relatives speaking nearly as many. The story of an adolescent whose life has been changed forever by his mother's suicide when he was twelve years old. The story of a man who leaves the constraings of his family and its community of dreamers, scholars, and failed businessmen to join a kibbutz, change his name, marry, have children. The story of a writer who becomes an active participant in the political life of his nation. (back cover)
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A Tale of Love and Darkness, Amos Oz
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- Released
- 2005
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Amos Oz
- Publisher
- Harvest Books
- Released
- 2005
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 560
- ISBN10
- 015603252X
- ISBN13
- 9780156032520
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, True Stories, Biographies, Romance, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Love, Family, Holidays, Christmas, Adapted for Film, Memories, Jews, Holocaust, Jewish Literature, Israel, Childhood, Sagas, Autobiographical Novels, Biographical novels, Palestine, Jerusalem, History of Jews, Arabs, Israeli Literature, Zionism, Hebrew Literature
- First published
- 2002
- Original title
- Sipur al ahava ve-chošech
- Rating
- 4.25 out of 5
- Description
- Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, A Tale of Love and Darkness is at once a family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history. It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the forties and fifties, in a small apartment crowded with books in twelve languages and relatives speaking nearly as many. The story of an adolescent whose life has been changed forever by his mother's suicide when he was twelve years old. The story of a man who leaves the constraings of his family and its community of dreamers, scholars, and failed businessmen to join a kibbutz, change his name, marry, have children. The story of a writer who becomes an active participant in the political life of his nation. (back cover)